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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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